I’ve been e-mailing with a good friend who now classifies himself as a recovering evangelical after spending 30 years in the church and raising three sons. My friend is mature, godly and knowledgeable. He is not a young reactionary – he is responding to the failure of our American version of church. As I read […]
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Today at Antioch I had some of the most encouraging conversations that I’ve had in a long time. It reminded me that “we” are the church and that the community at Antioch is really what I value most!
Jesus answered Peter by saying that He would build His church. Paul pointed to the pettiness of popular games by saying that he planted, Apollos watered, but God made it grow. There are other verses that essentially say the same thing – it is a Triune God that breathes life into non-living things. It is
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With the launch of Antioch this Sunday I thought it would be a great time for some reader interaction!! If you’re out there, leave a comment and let us know what you are most excited about with the birth of this church (whether you are near or far — new to Antioch or have been
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Mother Kirk The word for church in Scotland is “Kirk.” I never knew this until I read C.S. Lewis’s The Pilgrim’s Regress. It is an allegory and in it Lewis has a character that is a representation of the church named “Mother Kirk.” In naming the church Mother Kirk, Lewis was drawing on the nurturing
